by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 20, 2019 | Scam of the day
Tech support scams are among the most common of scams and they cost consumers millions of dollars each year. I have been warning you about these scams for years. In the most common variations of this scam, the victim is scammed into responding to a pop-up on his or...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 19, 2019 | Scam of the day
Peer to Peer Payment Payment Services (P2P) such as Zelle, Venmo, ApplePay PayPal, Square Cash and PopMoney are popular ways to quickly and conveniently send money electronically from your credit card or bank account. They also are easy ways to be scammed and unlike...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 18, 2019 | Scam of the day
Adobe has just issued new security updates for the popular, but intensely flawed Adobe Flash software. Last year Adobe confirmed that it will stop updating and distributing Adobe Flash at the end of 2020 although frankly, it would be wise for you to migrate away from...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 17, 2019 | Scam of the day
A recent report of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) had some good news in regard to what it estimated was the amount of income tax identity theft that the IRS had been able to stop prior to paying money to the income tax identity thieves. Unfortunately, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 16, 2019 | Scam of the day
More than forty-two million Americans have student loans with an outstanding balance of more than 1.4 trillion dollars so it is no surprise that scammers are focusing their attention on these students and former students through scams that falsely promise to provide...
